panthers and the museum of fire

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It's amazing how fast life changes, how fast it moves. I suppose Ferris was right, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it... One minute you're sitting in an air-conditioned apartment making pancakes and watching endless hours of movies, and the next, you're brushing your teeth in a dog park and shampooing your hair in front of five-foot ocean waves. It's pretty disorienting ... and pretty damn fantastic.

It's been almost a month now of living the nomad life, and it's been more than enjoyable. Besides having to climb out of a station wagon to go to work in the morning, the freedom of having all your worldly possessions in one fully mobile space is very unreal indeed.

Besides the fact that we have become canadian-tourist-gypsy-hippies, things are relatively normal around here. Lots of sunning and swimming. Today, being a lovely wednesday with a small swell, we attempted an afternoon surf but were foiled by an unfair amount of blue bottle jellyfish... five minutes after paddling out I felt like I was smack dab in the middle of finding nemo, surrounded by a scattered army of stingy blue jellies ... so I quickly body-surfed the first wave out of there.

I leave you now with some random snapshots of January....

JayJays had a competition last week where we were asked to create a poster display for Big Day Out music festivalthe , and the winning store would win free double passes. This is the product of three days worth of back room scavenging, shelf climbing, and the dire need to not spend money on concerts .... In the end, the efforts paid off when this....

.... brought us to this! Just one of the stages at the lovely Big Day Out Sydney 2011. If you squint really hard you can see Lupe Fiasco on stage there.... AMAZING!

Along with Agnes the station wagon sent from heaven came a ginormous tent setup that adam and I put together for the first time last week ... and so on one sunny tuesday afternoon, the most glorious daytime chill spot (also known as) the legendary Bonny Goon, was born.

a wise man once said home is where you hang your hat...
(this man definitely lived in his car at one point)

Adam taking a nap on our most recent addition to the carpartment - the beautiful space-saving mastercraft that is the Thule Ocean 200! Hooray for Ebay :)

You meet some interesting friends when you live on wheels ... even in the suburbs of Sydney. One night this little guy wandered into our vicinity for a late-night snack!

apparently schnitzel burgers are a favourite among the fox families...

take a walk on the wild side

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* we sleep in the car, we live in the universe *

I am alive

(Ten days later and she keeps her promise...)

Hello and Happy 2011 Everybody! Normally, this is where I would apologize for not keeping up with my writing, but in light of my new living situation involving far less internet and far more mobility, I am just going to use these few precious interweb moments to tell you guys a little bit about the lovely holiday season on this side of the equator ...

This was the first christmas decoration in our apartment. With help from the banner left over from Adam's birthday in November, and the amaaaazing stockings sent overseas by his mom (Thanks Chris!) we were able to fashion a makeshift mantelpiece above the doorway to the balcony. Let the holiday spirit flow!

Our charlie brown christmas tree/branch complete with decorations found on our coffee table and around the kitchen. When was the last time you saw a christmas tree/branch beside a surfboard and an open balcony door?

Katie was nice enough to make cinnamon buns a la Bailey Christmas, and I was ever so appreciative. Christmas breakfast and christmas coffee - yumm!

En route to Bondi Beach for christmas in the sun, armed to the teeth with my new presents - body board from donald, fins from adam, and coffeemug from katie - happy christmas indeed! :)

The gang at the bus stop. This would have been our christmas card if we could freeze time to allow mail to travel faster ....

After a magical Christmas and New Years, we were sadly uprooted from our lovely abode at Surf Side Three and flung into the new chapter of our Aussie adventure ... and while we had some truly wonderful times in that beachside mini-palace, it's time to try something new, something very new...

Goodbye Surf Side ....

... Hello Agnes!

Adam and I proudly showing off our new baby girl, Agnes Magnus the Mitsubishi Magna Wagon ... Isn't she beautiful?! She has been excellent to us thus far, providing plenty of space and opportunity for cookouting and card gaming and, of course, sleeping.

Anyways, that's all for now kids, I can't promise there will be ample blogging in the near future but I will do my best to keep you all updated. Goodnight! (or for Canada, Good Morning :)

keyboards for lunch

And so, it has come to this...

At this very moment I am sitting in an internet station not four stores from my place of work on a half hour lunch break, attempting to update. Apparently, this is the only real free time that has been given to me in the last little while ... or at least, the only free time I wouldn't mind spending infront of a computer screen.

Between wreaking holiday havoc, carpartment shopping (yes, it's a word), and the big move out from Surf Side Three in Coogee Beach, I haven't had much time to sit and recount all the madness swirling around my Aussie adventure. BUT, dear faithful friends and readers, I promise you now that upon my return home this evening I will have a fully detailed description of the last few neglected weeks, with fabulous pictures included.

This is, of course, providing that I manage to pack everything I own (which at the current time is sprawled through the entirety of our apartment) into a travel backpack in the next two nights between the hours of 7 and midnight ...

Ready? BREAK!